Best maple syrup?

[stinkynuts]

Got to give it as a gift. What is the best brand?

 

[stinkynuts]

Thanks, asn. I also heard Costco's maple syrup to be very good, but the containers they use are plastic.

have heard this is pretty good.

http://www.themaplestore.com/

 

[blackrock13]

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http://www.ontariomaple.com/index.php?action=display&cat=31&area=SIM&do=search

As they're all great, the closest, buy a large can and put the contents in a uniques bottle, easiest source is the local wine making store. OR get a
bottle with stoppers, flip tops or corks and rebottle. If your artistic, fire up your computer and favorite label program and goo nuts.

I use the Unibrue 750 ml beer/bottles from the LCBO and champagne stoppers for all shorts of rebottles. You can wire and foil to fancy it up.

 

[blackrock13]

Great idea but be very careful with home bottling.

The original containers are sterile, food grade containers filled with boiling syrup. When sealed, they are safe for a long time. However, once opened, the contents can be exposed to ambient pathogens that can grow over time into a dangerous food poisoning risk. Syrup is a good growth media.




IF you are going to do this, it would be a good idea to sterilize the bottles with the same home canning procedure that is used for pickles, jams etc.

Probably not a huge risk but you don't want to make friends sick...


As to the original question.

Pick the nicest looking bottle for a gift.


Maple syrup is pretty good across the producers as it is simply boiled sap. The various grades have to do with depth of colour, intensity of maple flavour etc.

http://www.ontariomaple.com/fact-finding/pure-maple-syrup.html

In Ontario the most expensive is #1 Extra Light. But syrup lovers tend to enjoy the depth of the #2 grades.

I missed that point thanks, hot water and a little javex works and then rinse the bottle. O spend money and by sterilizer at the wine store.

Old syrup or crystals make a great panty dropper liquor when topped with some ho hum vodka

 

[night ride]

I don't want to be a sap, but I buy my maple syrup at the grocery store. The best I've had is Brien's Maple Syrup from Quebec but it is hard to find.

 

[blackrock13]

No, that is not how to do it. You can introduce bacteria back in with your final rinse. Not to pick on you pal, but you really should be more careful when making recommendations with such conviction.


Read up on home canning for details but here is the essence.

1. Wash the bottles with soap and water, rinse well.

2. Put the bottles, caps (and funnel you're going to use to transfill) in a big pot of water (canner) and bring it to a boil. Boil for ten minutes.

3. Remove the bottles, fill with syrup and cap.

4. Put the sealed, filled bottles back in the hot water bath and bring to a boil for another five minutes. Let cool and you're all set.


Sure, it seems like overkill but food poisoning is really shitty. Botulism is the biggest risk in home canning and can kill you

http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/hfile22.stm

What is botulism?
Botulism is a serious, often fatal, form of food poisoning. The poison is produced by Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium that is found everywhere – in soil, on raw fruits and vegetables and on meat and fish. Over the years, a number of Canadians have died from botulism as a direct result of improper home canning.

What causes botulism?
Botulism spores are resistant to heat – even from boiling water – and thrive in a moist, oxygen-free environment. As botulism spores reproduce, they generate one of the most extraordinarily powerful poisons on earth. One teaspoon-worth is sufficient to kill 100,000 people. Improper home canning creates the perfect environment in which to grow the botulism toxin. Because food contaminated by botulism may look and smell normal, there is often no warning.

The importance of cleanliness
The other safety factor to keep in mind is cleanliness. All work surfaces should be kept clean during all stages of the canning process. The food being preserved must itself be rinsed clean. It is particularly important to sterilize the jars and seals before use. To sterilize jars, boil them for 10 minutes. If you live at higher elevations (over 1,000 feet) allow one more minute of boiling for each extra 1,000 feet of elevation. To sterilize tops (seals with rubber gaskets) boil them for five minutes.

Thanks for expanding on what I should have made more clear with boiled water, leave it to a better informed member, watch the in-laws closer next, and learned something new.

 

[blackrock13]

Glad you learned something new. Not to put too fine a point on it but you didn`t ever say anything about boiing water, you couldn`t have made anything "more clear" as you were wrong. Plain and simple. You said:

I missed that point thanks, hot water and a little javex works and then rinse the bottle.



Your credibility will increase if you admit you are wrong once in a while.



Seeing as you are never wrong this may pose a problem so might I suggest you posting something that you KNOW is wrong, then admitting your mistake later!

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Well, you are making too fine a point, but that nothing new.


I guess you were sleeping the other day, when just that happened two days a go. You snooze you lose.

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[blackrock13]

You claim admitting a typo is a admitting you're wrong?

Hey, not for me to say because I love being wrong, makes me smarter!

Where in this post, does it say anything about a typo?

"Well, there you go, that just proves I need some sleep. I stand corrected.

Yet you still are confusing law and justice. They don't always go hand in hand. The most famous example of our time is the OJ trial. The law carried the day, but justice certainly wasn't victorious."

It was Fruity Hare that raised that point of a typo.

Even JBG acknowledge it as an apology in post #119. You've just haven't removed that pine cone from your arse in the recent weeks and read more into things than is really there.

 

[shai]

If you are ever in Montreal, Quebec city or Vancouver, this place provides the best syrup in the world. Owned by a co-op of growers. I hear they have plans to open up in Niagara by the lake

http://www.mapledelights.com/maple-syrup/index.aspx

 

[oldjones]

Got to give it as a gift. What is the best brand?

The people you're giving it to will know the difference? Focus on a decent product—the easy part—that will provide entertainment value when you present it and they enjoy it afterwards. Go for the good story.

 

[Boss Nass]

If you want something a little different Moon Shadows Estate Winery near Haliburton makes a maple syrup wine.

 

[MissCroft]

Birch syrup is good too!

 

[blackrock13]

Birch syrup is good too!

I've only had it few times and wonder if it's worth the extra cost, but it is good